I'm all chatty and stuff...

[kho]

Ya know, I don't know why, or how even, but I was thinking about that fanfic for profit thing that happened forever ago just now (which I thought, and still think, was blown WAY out of proportion, and was discussed ad nauseum over here, so if you simply must tell me why I'm wrong again, please do it there) and it makes me want to think about it

Comments

[michellek]

Personally, I think asking for money to write fanfic is way out of line. It's one thing to play in someone else's world, but to make money off it? Very WTF to me. For example, it's one thing for me to dl an album by Tom Waits or something, it's another for me to burn that album to discs, sell them, and pocket the money. (/dumbest analogy ever)

[kho]

No, I agree with you. Asking for money for fanfic is out of line, and retarded, and shouldn't happen. But in that particular case I didn't feel like she needed to be driven out of fandom altogether beause she's an idiot. It doesn't make her less of an idiot, but. I don't know. That thing got way out of hand, I thought. To me it was one idiot asking for money, a few idiots being stupid enough to give it to her, and a LOT of idiots taking it upon themselves to point out the obviousness of her idiotness. (Not everyone who weighed in on the topic was an idiot, but there were some posts I saw that were just, wow, idiotic

[kho]

Can I just point out that I used the word idiot way more times in that post than I probably have in real life ever. WOW. Find a new word, Kelly!

[michellek]

I don't know man, I just... don't feel bad for her. Maybe this makes me a bad person? But I think that if you're going to be dumb and full of yourself enough to think you should get paid for fanfic, I think you *should* step away from fandom and get some perspective. And OMG who would even do something that dumb in a public post? My God, if you're going to make an ass of yourself, at least use a flock. and yes, fear of others seeing my asshattery is why all of my non-fic posts get locked now. Also, I think it would've been bad for fandom down the road. I mean, I hate making the slippery slope argument, because I find them silly on the whole but who's to say that, if paying for fic became a standard practice, the people who don't give a shit about fic might start being offended? Not likely, but I think anything that could make more Anne Rices needs to get smacked down hard.

[norwich36]

While I'm always up for the mocking of Anne Rice, I think you really do have to distinguish between producers of TV/movies who ban fanfiction, and writers who do, because most writers barely make a living as it is, if they write professionally, so whether they are good writers or not, their living is threatened by fanfic in a way that TV and movie producers are not. There just aren't big enough profit margins in publishing these days